关键词: 劳动力成本, 工业结构, 门限面板模型

Abstract: Has Labor Cost impact on China’s industrial structure? Further, how Unit Labor Cost effect China’s industrial structural change? With these problems, based on 2001-2013 China’s industry sectors, this article builds threshold panel model by Unit Labor Cost as threshold variable to examine the relationship between Unit Labor Cost and industrial structural change. The results of empirical analysis show that, Unit Labor Cost has a “U shaped” relationship between industrial structural change. When Unit Labor Cost falls below a certain critical point 0.1426%, Unit Labor Cost is harmful to industrial structural change; When Unit Labor Cost exceeds the critical point, Unit Labor Cost has a positive influence on industrial structural change. The policy implication is that the government and the enterprises should change the economic development and production mode, and actively guide and promote the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure by taking advantage of the rising Unit Labor Cost.

Key words: Labor Cost, Industrial Structure, Threshold Panel Model